CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-6658
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
Cisco Sourcefire Snort 3.0 before build 233 has a Buffer Overread related to use of a decoder array. The size was off by one making it possible to read past the end of the array with an ether type of 0xFFFF. Increasing the array size solves this problem.
Affected configurations
• cisco sourcefire snort 3.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://blog.snort.org/2017/05/snort-vulnerabilities-found.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038483 www.securitytracker.com
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170515-snort Vendor Advisory
- http://blog.snort.org/2017/05/snort-vulnerabilities-found.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038483 www.securitytracker.com